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What's the user story for this? followers collections? On Mon, Aug 26, 2024, 2:43 PM Evan Prodromou ***@***.***> wrote: > For a collection with id https://social.example/collection/1 and an > object...

wouldn't that be metadata that it would be easier for your local server (which is presumably authenticating your requests, at the very very least) to have stored in its cache...

WDYM "check once"? your local server is the authority for your own followers and following collections. If the remote server disagrees then you're sending posts to the wrong people and...

A different user story where we considered this type of approach was described in [FEP-8f8c](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-8fcf-followers-collection-synchronization-across-servers/1172) (trying to find "ghost followers", or places where local and remote followers and following collections...

yeah, we also used a solution involving fixed size bloom esque hashes. I think that's a more promising/useful future extension for implementors than this approach On Mon, Aug 26, 2024,...

I am hesitant to reify that as a valid use case because very few servers are going to want to expose the following / followers collection publicly. For example, twitter...

Whether or not to respond to a request with a paged collection has to be 100% in the server's control, because it's an important availability goal of the server to...

> The point is that a paged collection and an unpaged collection are different things and it doesn't make sense to have a collection that is both paged and unpaged....

I'm not seeing any justification in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32538 for why any content type other than HTML would be useful or preferred. I don't think Claire is expressing any sort of *preference*...

Yes, as @trwnh says I think you've just misunderstood this section. The whole point of this section is that JSON-LD parsers will recognize `@base` and be able to interpret the...